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- Contains more than 80 anthological texts from classical and contemporary authors
- Contains approximately 60 articles of the Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Religion and Science
-Contains various teachings of Pope John Paul II on Christian Revelation, culture, and scientific thought
- Approximately 200,000 pages are viewed monthly on this site
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«Those thinkers are absolutely mistaken, therefore, who imagine they can prove man’s nature to be purely material simply by uncovering ever deeper and more numerous roots of his being in the earth. Far from annihilating spirit, they merely show how it mingles with and acts upon the world of matter like a leaven. Let us not play their game by supposing as they do that for a being to come from heaven we must know nothing of the earthly conditions of his origin.»
(P. Teilhard de Chardin, Hymn to the Universe, Collins, London 1965, p. 78) |
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| The Interdisciplinary Documentation on Religion and Science website seeks to help scientists frame their work within a philosophical and humanistic context. It also seeks to aid people trained in theology to approach, through the humanistic reflections of scientists, the rationale of scientific activity. The website presents an ample anthology of selected documents and also offers, in a separate section, the Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Religion and Science (ISSN: 2037-2329), a dynamic, online-only database. The Interdisciplinary Documentation on Religion and Science website is a nonprofit project associated with the Chair of Fundamental Theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, Italy. |
March 11
On this day in history:
In 1636, Christoph Grienberger died in Rome. He was an Austrian mathematician, astronomer, and Jesuit priest who taught mathematics in his home country and in Rome. He authored mathematical and astronomical works, among them a catalogue of the astronomical coordinates of the fixed stars known at the time (Catalogus veteres affixarum stellarum longitudines et latitudines cum novis stellis collatas continens, 1612).
In 1891, Michael Polanyi was born in Budapest. He was a chemist-physicist who also engaged in epistemology. He contributed to overcoming the view of science as an impersonal and objective activity. He emphasized the value of the personal, heuristic, and contextual factors found in every act of scientific knowing. His thought is principally found in two of his works, Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy (1958) and The Tacit Dimension (1962). |
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 In order to make certain documents better known in the scientific community, the Anthology and Documents section provides key materials for study and reflection concerning the dialogue among science, philosophy, and theology. It includes scientists’ essays, masterpieces on the history of science, works of philosophers and theologians, and documents from ancient, medieval, and Renaissance authors, as well as Sacred Scripture and official documents of the Catholic Church and other Christian churches. |
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